I’ve tried to get my dog to look at screens and she gives absolutely zero shits

And people say humans have superior intellect.

The fear is ridiculous. Yes it’s somewhat sanitised, all social media is sanitised. Shit even on lemmy large instances are going to remove a video of me showing how to inject heroin or, for a more moderate thing, explain how trans people can DIY hormones.

It is good when people from different cultures share stuff. It is good when state barriers break down and people see how we’re all so similar at the end of the day.

Leaving insurance privatised is insane to me. The whole of society hurts if people can’t rebuild their lives and we just let people screw people for as much as they can then drop them the moment is looks like turnabout might be coming. Ok.

I don’t think they’re actually related to limes very closely. But they are a native Australian citrus.

Upgraded the telescope this year and have had nothing but cloudy skies since (all new scopes come with free clouds).

Hopefully I can get a stickybeak. Might have to go to a more open area though.

gonna be an underwhelming answer but umm lime?

Oh on weird fruit. May I introduce the finger lime:

<3 It’s had a mixed reception, all cool people love colour. My goal is a home that feels warm and lived in, where a stranger would feel comfortable putting their bag down anywhere.

Since I’m a degenerate who failed at capitalism I have a lot of time to learn how to do jobs around the house. If my body was in better nick I’d aim for something like a fitter and turner apprenticeship. Always loved labour but not work if that makes sense?

Oh actually, black sapote is extremely uncommon here, had it once. Excellent fruit. Jabuticaba is slightly more common and stellar too, living next to the usa seems bad bat at least you south Americans get excellent fruit in compensation.

An excellent fruit.

Durian doesn’t really count as uncommon but when I make the hour long pilgrimage to the durian vendor the people on the street have a good giggle at the pasty lady buying them.

Alas only Thai or Darwin durians can be fresh here for biosec laws. Others have been frozen. If I ever have the money to take a holiday overseas I’m going to travel to malasia just to visit a particular farm a family friend knows the owners at. Ahh durian, the trancendental joy, the lobes of heaven, the sublime satiator.

I’m painting. PO gave the door hardware the landlord special that made them rust, so now the bedroom has spiraled into a week and bit job. Looks great so far, and once I get the 'robe done with new brass and the trim redone in jarrah it’ll be my little sanctuary. Pic relates

old and ugly wardrobe going Kenedy assassination green

Yep, I half remember it from one line my year 4 science teacher said.

Cats actually eat souls, the meat is the vessel

I think you’re focusing on mass market stuff too much and you’re tech-brained. Publishers are basically necessary for non fiction as you need fact checkers, legal cover if making claims about humans that might sue you and research access and assistance.

Marketing help is needed for anything that isn’t already popular, income is needed while you work, editing is an extremely hard job that is a profession for a reason. Relying on something like patreon or YouTube where you have no real rights is an extremely precarious way to live open only to people with extremely specific skills around self promotion.

There are reasons beyond authors being dumbshits why Australian authors struggle and every author ever will tell you it’s a terrible way to make bread.

#shitpostingtruthtorandomnerds

Thank you for depicting the vegan as the Chad, I wasn’t sure how to interpret this until I saw that ;)

Ah yes, “Your inner fish, the video game”. I can see it now. “Debt: the first 5000 years the Netflix series” rivetting viewing.

Margins on books are awful, authors are largely paid a lump sum for publishing because they need food and sales on a book are often quite small. Like a few thousand small. Keep in mind you also need money while you are writing a book before it’s being sold.

Patreon models and self publishing only works for smut and pulp.

Oh right, yeah that is a correct thing to be confused by. I was talking market and you were talking effort and we were both probably thinking: what the fuck sort of idiot is this person? :p

It’s just generally true that being an indie creative while having to pay rent or get thrown to the street to starve and die is very difficult. People with vision and drive make the most valuable culture, and capitalism sees that as inefficient.

Because outside of some textbooks they are almost entirely solitary efforts until editing, which is a very difficult thing to pull off. They have smaller audiences, take longer to ‘consume’, can’t be sold for as larger margins, and they are not easy to monetise in other ways aside from sale. Additionally physical copies are much more expensive to make than digital copies of media, and many book enjoyers want physical copies.

Just look around, nobody gets rich making books. Mass market tv/film and video games are staggering profitable by comparison, and hence easier and more attractive to make.

I propose a suite of radical changes. In order to maintain ideological focus and purity each user shall begin each comment with:

I <full legal name> reaffirm my commitment to big broccoli and oppressing the carnist, may history forget them.

thoughts?